Frostbite gone bitchy

While a lot of people regard the first frost of the year as a bad bad thing, I welcome it with open arms. "Why" you may ask? It's simple. When the frost comes, my allergies stop and I don't have to use my crazy eye drops that make the desire to tear my eyeballs from their sockets go away. Yes, the first frost is great news for allergy sufferers.

So you can imagine with the sight of frost outside, I was in a pretty chipper mood this morning as I made my way to the street car. I should have known that it would be a trying ride when the driver informed me that we'd be going slowly today. As Mike mentioned in the comments of yesterday's blog, the city of Toronto is pretty tapped for resources, so they can't pick up roadkill or afford to fix the tracks on the College line. The tracks on this line are really old. So old that they've created "Red Zones" where the drivers aren't allowed to go any faster than 10 km/h. I don't think I'd had a concept for how slow that actually is until today. It seems that this morning there were street car cops out with radar guns making sure that the drivers didn't exceed the limit in the "Red Zones." According to today's street car driver, a repeated speeding violation results in a $400 fine.

So we were going very slowly today. And it really seemed like there was something in the air. A kind of nervous energy. There's going to be a full moon on Friday (a harvest moon in fact) so maybe that can account for the antsyness. I don't know, but something has to explain why I saw a woman actually hit an innocent guy sitting down and why I saw two men almost come to blows in an unrelated incident mere minutes later. Definitely a different way to start your day. Hopefully one I can pass on for a good long time.

Today's sing-a-long song: "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins

HRH